Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

War Review for the Final of people in the last two years of the war

        Help!  

Question
Answer
Naval commander who won the battle of Mobile Bay and leading through the mines there   David Farragut  
🗑
New York newspaper editor who tried to negotiate peace with the Confederates at Niagara Falls in 1864   Horace Greeley  
🗑
Confederate cavalry leader accused of atrocities against black soldiers at Fort Pillow   Nathan Bedford Forrest  
🗑
Confederate commander who surrendered at Vicksburg   John C. Pemberton  
🗑
Commander of Union river fleet in the Vicksburg campaign   David Dixon Porter  
🗑
Union general blamed for letting Lee escape across the Potomac after Gettysburg   George B. Meade  
🗑
Union general who maneuvered the Army of the Cumberland to push the Confederate army to Chattanooga and then into Georgia. Unfortunately, he lost the battle of Chickamauga and was then removed from command   William Rosecrans  
🗑
Prickly Confederate general who won the battle of Chickamauga but couldn't build on that success and lost at Chattanooga   Braxton Bragg  
🗑
Union general who held back the Confederates for a time at Chickamauga and whose men made an amazing assault on Missionary Ridge   George Thomas  
🗑
General put in charge of the Union cavalry in 1864   Philip Sheridan  
🗑
Union general who was supposed to cut off Lee's communications in the Shenandoah Valley but who failed miserably   Franz Sigel  
🗑
Union colonel who devised an assault at the Mule Shoe to break through theConfederate trenches at Spotsylvania   Emory Upton  
🗑
Confederate general who kept retreating in the face of Sherman's advances in Georgia. He was ultimately replaced for a more aggressive general   Joseph E. Johnston  
🗑
Confederate general who was defeated in Georgia and then retreated into Tennessee where he was defeated at the battle of Franklin   John Bell Hood  
🗑
Ohio politician who was leader of Copperheads and was arrested by General Burnside   Clement Vallandigham  
🗑
Governor of North Carolina who protested the Confederate government's suspension of habeas corpus   Zebulon Vance  
🗑
He earned the nickname, "Beast," for his governorship of New Orleans and by the infamous "Woman Order?" Also, in the orders for Union advance in the Spring of 1964, he got "bottled up" and was no help to Grant   Benjamin Butler  
🗑
U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War   Charles Francis Adams  
🗑
Puppet ruler whom Napoleon III tried to put on the throne in Mexico during the Civil War   Maximilian  
🗑
Colonel who led the Massachusetts 54th in their assault on Fort Wagner   Robert Gould Shaw  
🗑
Vice President of the Confederacy who opposed Davis's conduct of the war   Alexander Stephens  
🗑
Unionist leader in North Carolina who ran for governor on a peace platform, but lost   William W. Holden  
🗑
Military governor of Louisiana who was not able to carry out Lincoln's hopes for an election there that would elect a legislature that would support emancipation. He also led an ineffectual military campaign along the Red River and never carried out Gran   Nathaniel Banks  
🗑
Secretary of the Treasury who had ambitions to be president but never achieved those ambitious. He was later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to follor Roger B. Taney   Salmon P. Chase  
🗑
Democratic candidate for president in 1864   George B. McClellan  
🗑
Former candidate for president who was the focus of a brief movement to oppose Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1864 by abolitionists and some German-Americans   John C. Fremont  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: betsynewmark